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Graduate students filing for February 2025 degrees: We are now accepting submissions directly to ScholarWorks. Directions for submissions can be found in this guide. Please email scholarworks@library.umass.edu if you have any questions.
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Publication Open Education vs. Inclusive/Equitable Access: Cage match vs. coexistence?(2025-03-03)Want to collaborate with Creative Commons? We are open! Creative Commons (CC) is a global non-profit organization; we believe in a world where education, culture, and science are equitably shared to benefit humanity. Our work focuses on technical, legal, and policy solutions to enable that sharing. Yet, we also foster collaboration and community building around open efforts, globally. CC facilitates free, open community groups around the world focused on Open Culture, Copyright and Education. This year, we are pleased to offer more openly licensed resources, small project funds, CC Certificate scholarships, and opportunities for collaboration than ever before. Join this session, as we share opportunities for engagement, including small-scale funding options. Then let’s collectively explore possibilities for future collaboration!Publication The Diversity of Request for Proposals for New Bookstore Contracts and the Consequences of Automatic Textbook Billing(2025-03-03)The American higher education system is highly diverse and complex, with no single model but rather a plurality of approaches. This presentation will explore two concrete examples: one involving a new bookstore contract for a single state university and another covering a contract for 13 institutions. The goal is to help the audience examine how the bookstore contracting process unfolds at their own institutions, identify key stakeholders, and ensure that diverse voices are included in shaping a bookstore contract that meets the needs of all parties involved.Publication Making nursing education more accessible and equitable through OER, a collaboration between OpenStax and the THECB(2025-03-04)The Open Educational Resources Nursing Essentials (ONE) Project is a partnership between the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and OpenStax, the world’s largest publisher of OER. This project was created to address the crisis-level nursing workforce shortage, driven largely by immense financial barriers to undergraduate nursing education. Through this project, the THECB and OpenStax worked alongside 94 authors and 152 reviewers to develop and publish 8 free, high-quality, open, and accessible nursing textbooks. These books align with AACN standards and competencies and offer NCLEX preparation support. During this session, we will discuss the collaborative end-to-end approaches and practices employed to achieve project outcomes. We will discuss how this collaboration began, the project’s goals and phases, the nursing textbook development process, and the quantitative outcomes achieved. We will also describe the needs analysis, user engagement, learning design, and review processes that drove the project.Publication The impact of the ROTEL project on student learning and feelings of inclusion(2025-03-04)The Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens (ROTEL) project promotes textbook affordability, student success, and inclusion and equity to benefit all students, particularly those from minoritized populations. To date 22 books have been published. The assessment coordinators for the ROTEL project, will share the results of three semesters of data collection investigating the impact of using an intentionally designed inclusive textbook on student success and feelings of representation and belonging. They will share data that compares grade outcomes and course completions for students enrolled in course sections that used a ROTEL textbook versus those students enrolled in sections that did not use a ROTEL book. They will also share survey results on students’ perceptions and experiences using these textbooks.Publication Student Overboard: Rescuing One Discipline at a Time(2025-03-04)Take a behind-the-scenes look at this Louisiana team's innovative approach to developing an Introduction to Practical Nursing course. By collaboratively adapting an open licensed textbook, the team is working to enhance LPN education and training in the state. With federal grant support from LOUIS: The Library Network, eighteen cohorts are working to create courses for high-demand CTE programs. The Practical Nursing cohort stands out by incorporating recorded interviews with nursing students and practitioners into both the textbook and Moodle course. Discover how they’re making it happen and learn more about the Building a Competitive Workforce: Career and Technical Education (CTE) OER with Embedded Digital Skills grant!
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